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PFFF 2018 LINEUP

We are proud to announce the official program for our 4th edition of the Picture Farm Film Festival. Over the course of two days, we will be screening over 25 short films along with a special presentation of Chanelle Aponte Pearson’s 195 Lewis.

Our programmed blocks feature short films that tackle topics such as romance in the time of shifting gender presentation and defining “punk” in marginalized communities. As always, we’ve got some soulful Q&A’s planned.

Picture Farm Film Festival takes place Friday, April 13 - Saturday, April 14, 2018. Scroll down to learn more about each film.

OPENING NIGHT (4/13/2018) 7P

Izzy Dela Cruz on Sprit Keeping - Gracie Rothey
A brief documentary about a college student and her unique relationship with her roommates (who just happen to be ghosts).

Paloma - Giovanni Autan
A series of intimate vignettes are woven together by the memories and dreams of people in central Havana.

Walk For Me - Elegance Bratton
A contemporary coming out story set in present day New York City. Hassan Kendricks is a conflicted teenager torn between his devotion to his single mother and his desire to be himself. When his mother, Andrea, finds women’s underwear and a flyer to a Gay Ball in her son’s bedroom, she decides to track Hassan down and confront him about his decisions. Arriving at the ball, Andrea only finds a shock: under the wing of his adoptive gay mother, Paris Continental, Hassan has assumed the identity of Hanna. Andrea is confronted by a choice — deny her own son or accept her child for who she really is.

Waterman - Jessica Jacklin
A Hemingway style portrait of a man and his relationship to the menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay.

Beatrice - Lorena Alvarado
Beatrice Vio cultivated a passion for fencing when she was five years old. At 11, she contracted severe meningitis. In the hospital, the doctors gave her an unimaginable choice: Keep her limbs and risk death, or amputate all four to ensure survival. She chose life. Now, Vio is a Paralympic champion and the only fencer in the world who competes without arms or legs.

Jump Man - Ron Brodie
Curtis is at a crossroads in his life. His dreams to become a legend could be derailed by the easy way out. Heavily Influenced by what he sees on television, he believes greatness is at his fingertips; but it’s only if he is willing to get past the hazards that stand in his way. Narrated by his future self, Curtis reflects on some of the challenges he will have to face if he truly wants to make it.

Modern Love - Francesca Mirabella
Romance in the era of Snapchat.

Fill Your Hear With French Fries - Tamar Glezerman
"Fill your heart with French Fries" is a short sad comedy about a woman who gets dumped by her girlfriend at a fast food joint, and, too sad to go home, just stays there for a week.

EUDAEMONIA - Julia Ngeow
A talkative Australian traveller and a reclusive artist form an unlikely bond after an accidental 'break and enter' in Brooklyn.

SOUL CANDY MIXTAPE (4/14/2018) 12P

Afropunk - Simon Benjamin

Vitamins for Life - Grier Dill
Adapted from a series of micro-fiction tweets by @quietpinetrees, this amusing pastiche of educational shorts illuminates the benefits and dangers of lesser known vitamins.

Secret Admirer - Ashley Denise
Things escalate quickly when Amanda receives a series of unmarked packages at her front door.

Nothing to Find - Ben Fee
A girl and her plant creature embark on a bittersweet road trip in their plant-plastered car, stopping to scavenge for supplies, dance, and do some lite grooming. The day takes a turn when the plant creature's mortality rears its head at sundown.

Wrangling Russie - Ilie Mitaru
In 2011, Russia's largest meat producer, Miratorg, began recruiting American cowboys to help restart a national beef industry that had been destroyed during the Soviet era Wrangling Russia follows four of these American cowboys as they attempt to train their Russian counterparts and create new lives for themselves and their families in this new unexpected Russian frontier.

Get Out Fast - Haley Anderson
A 15 year old boy remembers his best friend Coyote Boy: a free-living train-hopper who has gone missing.

blister - Emily Garland
Dealing with emotional turmoil post-breakup, Ramsey is faced with the option of wallowing in their pain or opening up to the possibility of new love.

Down Road - Kelly Wyndryck
When a couple makes a pit stop at a diner, they come across a young battered girl. While one wants to rescue the girl, sensing something is off with the owner of the diner, the other does not want to get involved and threatens to call the cops.

Damals - Aksel Stansy
Damals (da:mals adverb: back then, at that time, in those days)

We’ll Do The Rest - Adam Golfer
We’ll Do the Rest concerns the intersecting dream narratives of a female drone pilot, the unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur, and a story of high school gang violence in Louisiana. Nightmare visions are described as two individuals recall and re-inhabit fragmentary and traumatic memories from their pasts. Recollections of watching a landscape from above bleed into a street corner hold-up in downtown Baton Rouge. Interviews, staged performances and found footage are collaged together to create an anxiety-laden visual landscape where fact and fiction blur together and nothing is what it appears to be.

Her Seat is Vacant - Bohdana Smyrnova
Vira, a forty-year-old Ukrainian immigrant in New York, is preparing for her sister's funeral. Amongst all her responsibilities, Vira suddenly finds herself falling in love...

Are You Holding Me or Am I Holding Myself? - Cesar Brodermann
A self study examining the relationship between our minds and our bodies, our thoughts and our actions, and the sometimes insurmountable gaps between what we think we want to feel and what we actually experience.

Exit 9 - Joey Barglowski
Maddy finds herself stranded somewhere off of the highway after being stood up by a guy named Mike.

Penumbra - Justin Fine
A dark theater is consumed by a fantastical force. One by one, audience members undergo a metaphysical transformation as they are drawn to the stage and into the performance. Together on the stage they dance under the spell of the theater until they leave the stage for another realm.s

Summer Time - Kota Fudauchi
A story of one summer time. Fumi, Ryo have been living together at the apartment. They notice that the man who lives at the apartment opposite often take various women to his room. One day, Fumi just happens to meet him by chance at the street and… Have you ever had a special memory of summer time?

SPECIAL PRESENTATION (4/14/2018) 5P

195 Lewis - Chanelle Aponte Pearson195 Lewis is a web series about a group of friends trying to navigate being black, queer and polyamorous in Brooklyn, New York. It really centers around one queer couple who decides to open up their relationship, and all of the drama that unfolds when that happens. First full season followed by Q&A